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In a move that is sure to get liberal snowflakes rushing to their safe spaces faster than ever, Princeton University is now encouraging students
to report “problematic experiences based on [their] identity.” This
means that if students find themselves in a situation that makes them
feel offended or uncomfortable in anyway, they can – and should,
according to Princeton – go tell somebody about it, even if it is
something that normally wouldn’t result in disci

It’s said that about 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned by the second week of February.1
This means if you made one for 2018, there’s a good chance it may
already have failed. There’s also a sizable number of people who set no
goals at all, New Year’s resolutions or otherwise, in part because they
may not realize the importance of goal setting and in part because they
may not know how to do it.2
There are other reasons why you may avoid goal setting as well,

(Natural News)
Beginning shortly after President Donald J. Trump defeated Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 election, Americans were treated to a steady diet of
stories from the American Pravda media claiming that he “colluded” with
the Russian government to “steal the election.”
For months information meant to substantiate the claim, made in the
absence of any real evidence, was “leaked” to various news outlets known
to be friendly to Clinton, Democrats, and every known enemy

Remember, and even control, your dreams with 3 easy steps to lucid dreaming

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A study published online in the journal Dreaming has
revealed that a combination of several techniques may help increase the
likelihood of experiencing lucid dreams. Lucid dreaming is defined as
the capacity to remain aware while a dream is occurring and being able
to control the experience. A team of researchers at the University of
Adelaide in Australia have recruited up to 169 volunteers as part of the
study. The participants have been instructed to perform three lucid
dreaming techniques: reality testing, wake back to bed and mnemonic
induction of lucid dreams (MILD).

The reality testing technique has prompted participants to
check their environment several times daily to see whether or not a
dream has occurred. On the other hand, the wake back to bed approach
entails waking up five hours after sleeping, staying awake for a few
minutes and then going back to sleep in order to enter a rapid eye
movement (REM) sleep period. Dreams are more likely to occur during the
REM period, the experts say. In addition, the MILD technique involves
waking up five hours after sleeping and repeating the phrase “The next
time I’m dreaming, I will remember that I’m dreaming” before going back
to sleep. The research team has also given the participants a
questionnaire and a logbook to keep track of their dream experiences for
a week.

“Reality testing is practiced throughout the day, and even though
you’re forming that intention, when you go to sleep there’s still a gap
between when you last do a reality test. Lucid dreaming tends to happen
in the last couple of hours of sleep. Hence waking up after five hours
to do the MILD technique, you’ll have a very strong intention directly
before your most intense dreaming period,” the expert has stated in a Mashable.com entry.

“The MILD technique works on what we call ‘prospective memory’ – that
is, your ability to remember to do things in the future. By repeating a
phrase that you will remember you’re dreaming, it forms an intention in
your mind that you will, in fact, remember that you are dreaming,
leading to a lucid dream,” lead researcher Dr Denholm Aspy has told Science Alert online.

Researchers observe interesting study results

The study’s findings have shown that participants who combined all
three techniques have exhibited a 17 percent success rate in
experiencing lucid dreams within a period
of only one week. This has been significantly higher compared with a
baseline week when the participants did not adopt the techniques. The
research team has also observed that the success rate has risen to as
much as 46 percent among participants who were able to go back to sleep
within the first five minutes of completing the MILD technique.
(Related: Four ways to vastly improve your sleeping quality and dream life.)

Participants who experienced lucid dreaming are also less likely to lack sleep, the experts have reported in a Daily Mail article.
According to the scientists, the results suggest that lucid dreaming
does not have an adverse effect on the body’s overall health and
wellness. The research team adds that the findings not only provide an
insight on the mechanics of lucid dreaming, but may also show potential
implications in the development of various disease treatments.

“Importantly, those who reported success using the MILD technique
were significantly less sleep deprived the next day, indicating that
lucid dreaming did not have any negative effect on sleep quality. These
results take us one step closer to developing highly effective lucid
dream induction techniques that will allow us to study the many
potential benefits of lucid dreaming such as treatment for nightmares
and improvement of physical skills and abilities through rehearsal in
the lucid dream environment,” a university release reads.